Expository Thoughts
and patient, and always willing to aid. The ignorance of young beginners in religion is sometimes very provoking. We are apt to be wearied of their instability, and fickleness, and halting between two opinions. But let us remember Jesus, and not be weary. He "received all," spoke to all, and did good to all. Let us go and do likewise. As Christ deals with us, so let us deal one with another.
Notes on 9:7-11
7. Raised from the dead. Resurrection from the dead was believed by the Jews. The idea that the Jews, before Christ, knew nothing of a resurrection or another life is utterly untenable.
10. They withdrew by themselves. Cecil says, "I do not know how some Christians can make so little of recollection and retirement. I am obliged to withdraw myself regularly, and to say to my heart, What are you doing? Where are you going?"
LUKE 9:12-17
JESUS FEEDS THE FIVE THOUSAND
The miracle described in these verses is more frequently related in the Gospels than any that our Lord wrought. There is no doubt a meaning in this repetition. It is intended to draw our special attention to the things which it contains.
We see, for one thing, in these verses, a striking example of our Lord Jesus Christ's DIVINE POWER. He feeds an assembly of five thousand men with five loaves and two fish. He